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...vast canvas of Lars Ulrich’s drum set. Newcomer Robert Trujillo is the rare bassist who can keep up with both Ulrich’s punishing tempos and Kirk Hammett’s roaring guitar solos. Slayer and Anthrax may have their own fiefdoms in the thrash pantheon, and System of a Down may manage to retain their composure when they swing over into metal, but at their best, Metallica plays with more deliberate sophistication than any band that’s ever shred. Fanboys will no doubt note that “Death Magnetic?...
...business. And there is the Buffett who desperately craves attention and gets excited when a porn star says on her website that he's her hero. Buffett, Schroeder writes, is "at heart nothing more than a starstruck little kid, endearingly clueless in many ways about his place in the pantheon...
...there is a trait linking the members of this brainy pantheon, it may be optimism. "I don't think I've ever met a fellow who's cynical," Fanton says. "I'm struck by what good, humble people they are." He notes that some fellows (like physician Paul Farmer, 1993) have donated their winnings, while others have shared it with colleagues. History is littered with intellectual giants - think Nietzsche or Van Gogh - whose minds buckled under the weight of their thoughts. But Fanton says the vast majority of MacArthur Fellows are sunny and energetic, propelled by the belief that they...
...unless you structure a deal in such a way that we simply cannot lose. Otherwise, goodbye. That, in effect, is what Sameer Al Ansari, the CEO of Dubai International Capital, told Wall Street earlier this summer. He had had discussions "with all the people you'd expect" in the pantheon of U.S. finance regarding a possible investment from his fund, he told TIME. Wisely, it turns out, he told all of them no - and then set out on a tour of China to look at direct investments in companies that produce something other than toxic collateralized debt obligations. "There...
...Solzhenitsyn’s legacy needs to be put in perspective. Despite his much-vaunted heroism, he failed in many ways to measure up to the standards of either a great writer or a great man.A quick glance into the biographies behind the marbled busts of the literary pantheon is enough to reveal an abyss that separates these two distinctions. The debauched aesthetes of the 19th century, intoxicated with les fleurs du mal and the Baudelairean myth of a mysterious alchemy between vice and lyrical vision, now look frivolous from the vantage point of this more cynical era. Over time...